Skydivers in flight, high-altitude delight!
Check out these fearless skydivers rip through the sky as they plummet 33,000 feet in an intense high-altitude jump over Europe’s largest mountain, Barcroft reports.
French residents Fred Fugen, 34, and Vincent Reffet, 29, braved freezing skies above the French Alps when they performed what’s known as a “HALO” jump over the massive peak of Mont Blanc.
In order to have enough room to clear the 15,781-foot mountain, the daredevils leaped from such an extreme height that the curvature of the Earth could be seen in many of their pictures.
A HALO jump, which stands for High Altitude Low Opening, is when skydivers plunge out of a plane from an altitude between 28,000 and 35,060 feet with an extra-long free-fall time before the parachute is opened, according to space-affairs.com.
The additional free-fall time allows Fugen and Reffet to twist and tumble through the air as gravity tightens its grasp on them.
They even manage to come helmet to helmet as one of the skydivers stands up straight while the other amazingly taps him on the head while free-falling upside down.
The pair spent a year-and-a-half in Annecy, France, preparing for their death-defying leap, according to Barcroft.